Use the vxresize
command to resize a volume containing a file system. Although other commands can be used to resize volumes containing file systems, the vxresize
command offers the advantage of automatically resizing certain types of file system as well as the volume.
See the following table for details of what operations are permitted and whether you must first unmount the file system to resize the file system:
For example, the following command resizes the 1-gigabyte volume, homevol
, in the disk group, mydg
, that contains a VxFS file system to 10 gigabytes using the spare disks mydg10
and mydg11
:
# vxresize -g mydg -b -F vxfs -t homevolresize homevol 10g \
The -b
option specifies that this operation runs in the background. Its progress can be monitored by specifying the task tag homevolresize
to the vxtask
command.
Note the following restrictions for using vxresize
:
vxresize
works with VxFS and UFS file systems only.
vxresize
may take a long time to complete.
-f
option to forcibly resize such a volume.
VxVM vxresize ERROR V-5-1-2536 Volume volume has different organization in each mirror
To resize such a volume successfully, you must first reconfigure it so that each data plex has the same layout.
For more information about the vxresize
command, see the vxresize
(1M) manual page.